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TIAA is a unique financial partner. With an award-winning track record for consistent performance, TIAA is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and government fields. TIAA has $938 billion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2017) and offers a wide range of financial solutions, including investing, banking, advice and guidance, and retirement services. 

Ellucian provides innovative software and services to help educational institutions thrive in an open and dynamic world. The company delivers a broad portfolio of technology solutions, developed in collaboration with a global education community, and provides strategic guidance to help educational institutions of all kinds navigate change, achieve greater transparency, and drive efficiencies. More than 2,400 institutions in 40 countries around the world look to Ellucian for the ideas and insights that will move education forward, helping people everywhere discover their futures through learning. 

Jenzabar is higher education’s trusted advisor, offering technology solutions and services tailored to fit the evolving needs of institutions both today and in the future. The firm collaborates with clients to ensure its software and services drive performance across campus and throughout the full student life cycle. Exclusively serving higher education, more colleges and universities selected a Jenzabar student information system (SIS) over any other SIS during the past six years. 

National Management Resources Corporation provides services exclusively to private institutions of higher learning. Services include plant maintenance and repair, custodial services, landscape maintenance, and events planning and setups. National also offers campus security services through its subsidiary company, Synergy Campus Security, LLC. National tailors its services to meet the needs and goals of the clients the company serves. With National colleges can rest assured that their facilities look their best for recruitment, retention, and fundraising. National helps make colleges and universities look picture perfect all the time. 

Sodexo, a leader in quality of life services, is committed to enhancing the learning environment on campus. By focusing on quality of life services, the company reinforces the overall experience of campus life, which in turn improves its partners’ effectiveness and performance. From designing meals around lifestyle needs to designing buildings for growing enrollments, its commitment to providing students and staff a nurturing learning environment spans the entire campus experience. 

Strada Education Network, formerly USA Funds, is a new kind of nonprofit organization that takes a fresh approach to addressing—and solving—critical higher education and workforce challenges. Strada advances its guiding principle, Completion With a Purpose, through a unique combination of strategic philanthropy, research and insights, and innovative solutions to improve the college-to-career connection. The organization works to bridge the huge disconnect between the skills and competencies that graduates take into the job market and the needs of employers. Strada Education works to ensure all students have the tools and resources they need to successfully compete in today’s global workforce. Strada Education Network is building on the 56-year legacy of USA Funds, which helped more than 22 million students and parents pay for college. 

EAB is making education smarter by harnessing the collective power of more than 1,200 educational institutions to generate insights that help education leaders fulfill their mission and enable their students to succeed. The firm works alongside administrators, advisors, faculty members, and students through research forums, technologies, and services to apply and hardwire those insights. EAB helps leaders find and enroll the right students through enrollment marketing and financial aid optimization. The firm supports student success through a student success management system, which helps advisors, faculty members, and staff members guide students through school and to the post-graduate outcomes they want to achieve. EAB also provides institutions with the strategic guidance and data needed to improve mission-critical outcomes and prepare for tomorrow’s students. 

Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates has taken an authentic and thoughtful approach to all aspects of strategic and philanthropic consulting for its clients since 1994. JGA focuses on the concepts of mission, strategy, and accountability that underlie the philanthropic relationship and helps clients achieve high standards. JGA's team of experienced senior consultants offer client-focused, highly customized solutions to private colleges, independent schools, and large cultural organizations in the Central United States. The full-service firm assists with capital campaigns, development audits, feasibility studies, and general fundraising counsel. For more information, visit our website.

National Research Center for College and University Admissions (NRCCUA) is an educational data science platform and research organization with offices in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, and Austin, Texas. For 44 years, NRCCUA has been a leading provider of data, technology, and programs serving students, high school educators, colleges, and universities. These solutions represent the link between students making important life decisions and those providing the resources and information they need to succeed in their post-secondary educations and careers. 

The Registry for College and University Presidents is one of the nation's leading firms in the interim executive space. It is the only membership-based interim placement firm, which provides a business model that preempts the need for expensive, time-consuming, and potentially disruptive open-market interim searches. Over the last quarter-century, the Registry has defined and institutionalized "best practices" for the engagement of interim executives. Now with over 800 Members, the Registry is prepared to respond to the interim needs and requirements of colleges and universities in every sector and throughout the nation. The Registry can immediately generate interim candidate pools for presidents/chancellors, all cabinet positions, and deans. Most importantly, the Registry provides the very best interim talent, and its Members continue to achieve the very best results for their college and university clients.

Aramark is a single-source provider to over 600 higher education institutions for the development of dining and facility management solutions. Aramark offers a complete and innovative array of dining services that include master planning, culinary development and venue design, catering, concessions, and residential, quick-serve, and express dining concepts. The company’s knowledge and expertise extend to a broad range of facilities services including maintenance, custodial, grounds, energy and engineering solutions, capital project management, and building commissioning. 

Capture Higher Ed uses data and technology to attract, engage, and recruit mission-fit students. Capture leverages demographic, socio-economic, and behavioral data to deliver valuable insights for more effective and progressive student recruitment. Using an algorithmic approach, Capture maximizes meaningful engagement with prospective students at the most influential times in their decision-making journey, providing a better ROI to its partner institutions. Capture’s proprietary technology is built specifically for enrollment professionals, with real-time analytics and data visualization tools to easily monitor progress and measure the success of enrollment goals at any time. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Capture Higher Ed has served nearly 75 higher education institutions across the country, and has been recognized by Fortune as one of the greatest places to work and by Inc. 5000 as a fast-growing U.S. company. 

Collegis Education is a strategic partner for institutions that face barriers to long-term success. Guided by its deep-rooted experience in higher education, the firm’s distinctive combination of marketing, technology, and content expertise helps to craft holistic, institutionally–aware solutions that optimize and expand the reach of client institutions. Collegis Education does it all while preserving what matters most — the heart of the institutional mission and academic identity. 

Credo has partnered with independent college and university presidents, cabinets, and board members around the country for more than 20 years, using their team of interdisciplinary experts to help colleges’ teams go farther faster and more efficiently. Informed by a holistic approach to institutional health, Credo delivers action and results in strategic planning, campus planning, student success, marketing, enrollment, architecture, and research. Credo’s expertise in this sector of the higher education marketplace allows them to understand the unique challenges independent institutions face. The firm knows that with smart, data-driven strategies designed to lift up institutions’ missions and propel their visions, independent higher education can grow and thrive through any challenge. 

EFL Associates is a retained executive search firm established in 1978 with offices in Kansas City, Missouri; Denver, Colorado; and Houston, Texas. The firm offers customized search services to small and large institutions, both public and private, and has assisted more than 200 colleges and universities across the country. The firm’s consultants meet with institutional leadership to develop the list of services that would be most helpful for a particular search and then focus its efforts on fulfilling those tasks. EFL Associates’ distinctive feature is its commitment to meeting the specific needs of its clients. The consultant during the discovery phase of the project is the person who will guide the search through to successful appointment. EFL’s commitment to diversity is well above the industry average with diversity placements in 2015 exceeding 60 percent. The firm’s goal is to provide an efficient and effective process for its client institutions. 

EVERFI for the past 15 years has been a national leader in online prevention and compliance training for over 1,700 colleges and universities. EVERFI’s mission in higher education is to support campuses in driving lasting, large-scale change on critical health and safety issues, including sexual assault, high-risk drinking, substance abuse, harassment and discrimination, diversity and inclusion, and more. Over 8 million college students and employees will participate in EVERFI courses this year. 

Gonser Gerber LLP understands that each institution and its needs are unique. That is why the firm takes time to get to know the president and other institutional leaders and seeks to understand each institution’s particular opportunities and challenges. Gonser Gerber refers to this customized approach as forming individually crafted relationships. The client will call it distinctive, effective, and highly welcomed. Gonser Gerber, founded in 1950, is the nation’s first advancement consulting firm serving higher education institutions and a broad range of other organizations and agencies. The firm’s innovative services have provided more than 750 clients with creative, customized, results-oriented advancement counsel and helped clients raise billions of dollars. Services offered to clients include: comprehensive advancement counsel; campaign counsel; campaign readiness studies; advancement audits; marketing and communications counsel; strategic planning facilitation; executive searches through Gonser Gerber Search; and professional development for boards, staff, and volunteers through Gonser Gerber Institute programs. 

Hastings+Chivetta Architects, Inc. practices the firm’s mission statement every day, “Building clients, not just projects.” Over 80 percent of their projects are on a repeat or referral basis for higher education clients throughout the nation. For a half-century, the dedicated staff has participated in the master planning, design, and construction of every campus project type from science to athletics. From this experience they have gained a deep understanding of what campus leaders require to deliver projects that instill pride in past and future graduates. Hastings+Chivetta is committed to planning and designing facilities that meet each client’s unique requirements. The firm is recognized as a steward of sustainable design that supports its clients’ missions. Hastings+Chivetta is proud to have worked with over 70 CIC institutions in their 58-year history. 

Metz Culinary Management has been an innovative leader in the hospitality industry since 1994. The company’s experience with thousands of guests per week enables Metz to bring restaurant-quality cuisine and service to its foodservice operations in the educational setting. The company’s menus offer fresh, nutritious, enticing options tailored to students, staff, and guests. Metz sources the best local foods and ingredients each season and offers an abundance of vegetarian, vegan, heart-healthy, and lower–fat choices because of the company’s commitment to nutrition. Cage-free eggs, fair-trade coffee, and antibiotic-free chicken are just the beginning of the company’s sustainability efforts. 

Orbis Education solves health care workforce shortages by creating collaborative partnerships between educators and employers. Orbis partnerships combine the university’s academic expertise, the health care provider’s clinical expertise, and the company’s own substantial program management expertise to drive transformative enrollment growth without sacrificing academic quality. Orbis specializes in managing degree programs for high-demand health care fields, such as nursing and occupational therapy, which also have a significant clinical education component. The company helps academic partners remove the typical barriers to enrollment growth, from lack of capital to constrained faculty resources to the challenge of securing and managing clinical placements. The result is a health care program that attracts quality students, creates more high-quality practitioners to meet employer demand, and provides a sustainable incremental revenue stream for the institution. 

The Learning House, Inc. helps people improve their lives through education. The academic program manager offers a full suite of education services, including Online Program Management, Corporate Solutions, The Software Guild, Learning House International, and Advancement Courses. Built on a foundation of data-driven decision making, thorough market research, and robust technology services, Learning House is focused on delivering high-quality, relevant, timely education services to meet the needs of a dynamic, global market. Through its partnerships, Learning House helps universities acquire more students, produce more graduates, and deliver better outcomes while helping companies attract, develop, and retain a happier, more skilled workforce. 

Yaffe & Company, Inc. can help where boards and executive teams interface, and where data and relationships intersect. The firm’s team is comprised of former presidents of prestigious colleges and universities, and has four decades of experience in helping institutions to thrive and grow. Yaffe & Company are experts in the areas of board effectiveness, executive compensation contracts and performance, IRS compliance, goal-setting and performance evaluation, retirement and retention plan design, succession planning, leadership development, and presidential transition. With the firm’s guidance, the institution’s entire team will have constructive conversations that lead to greater clarity, meaningful outcomes, and positive growth. 

AGB Search, LLC focuses exclusively on higher education leadership. The firm identifies interim appointments to preserve continuity, offers full search services to help institutions navigate the hiring process, provides transition assistance to set up leaders for long-term success, and offers compensation evaluation services to assess fair, competitive salaries. Each member of the consulting team brings years of experience as a higher education leader to the firm. AGB Search not only understands the demands of leadership, but also is deeply invested in supporting the next generation of leaders. 

Art & Science Group offers market-informed strategy to higher education institutions, independent schools, and the nonprofit sector. Since its founding in 1994, the firm has provided its clients with strategic market research and recommendations, built on a foundation of both creative thinking and empirical rigor—art and science. The Group works in a variety of arenas, leveraging a foundation of market data, analysis, and inventive ideas, to guide and advance institutions’ strategic interests and critical investments. The firm is dedicated to helping each institution position itself in ways that positively affect the decisions of its key constituents in an institution’s favor. The Group provides a customized and collaborative approach for each client, with recommendations rooted in sophisticated research and thorough analysis. 

Asset Strategy Consultants has been providing independent investment consulting services for retirement plans, endowments, foundations, and operating reserves since 1991. With five offices along the East Coast, ASC consults on $9.5 billion assets under management. Having no products of its own, nor any relationships with banks or brokers, ASC provides customized investing using an open-architecture approach. For 403(b) clients, ASC is the partner that will ensure best practices for an institution’s Plan, DOL compliance, and outstanding participant services. As a "preferred" TIAA Adviser, ASC is equipped to oversee the complexities of 403(b) Plans and the vendors that service them. It is the firm’s goal to service higher ed clients by supporting the institution’s participants.

AVI Foodsystems, Inc., founded in 1960, provides comprehensive food services with a focus on the highest quality and freshest ingredients, impeccable service, and total value. AVI serves thousands of clients and millions of customers daily through residential dining restaurants, leading retail brands, contemporary vending and market cafés, premier catering services, superior concession venues, and exclusive beverage systems. AVI believes in developing and empowering team members, encouraging healthy lifestyles, giving back to communities, and supporting diversity in any way possible. AVI is a family company dedicated to serving customers with personal relationships, integrity, service, and creativity. 

Casagrande Consulting, LLC is a boutique firm focused on providing insight into institutional, board, leadership, and compensation effectiveness to institutions of higher education. The firm has provided insight to more than 50 institutions since its launch in 2009. 

Creative Communication Associates (CCA) is a full-service marketing communications and branding agency, specializing exclusively in higher education. From the Ivy League to large public universities to small private colleges to specialty schools, CCA’s nearly 30 years of strategic and creative expertise has built some of the best brands in higher education today. 

Derck & Edson‘s commitment to higher education is demonstrated through their numerous planning, enhancement, and athletics projects on campuses throughout the United States. The firm’s expertise is demonstrated by the lasting, positive impressions that their work leaves on college and university campuses. Since 1940, the company has been transforming campuses through planning, design, and implementation services that meet the needs of colleges and universities, including: feasibility studies, master planning, athletic facilities design, implementation services, engineering, GIS services, architectural services, site design, circulation solutions, construction observation, inventory and analysis, and identity enhancement. 

Dynamic Campus partners with forward-thinking leaders of colleges and universities who want to ensure their institution’s technical capabilities are optimized for the rapidly changing needs and goals of students, faculty members, and stakeholders alike. Dynamic Campus provides a proven blend of managed IT services, on-demand technical capabilities, and an objective approach to help colleges and universities maximize the performance of their existing technology investments and IT support teams. Universities and colleges trust Dynamic Campus to greatly improve student success outcomes and deliver better strategic alignment, improved organizational visibility and accountability, lower institutional risk, and a campus IT environment that is “future ready.” 

Educational & Institutional Insurance Administrators, Inc. (EIIA) is a nonprofit consortium offering a sophisticated range of insurance and risk management services to higher education institutions across the country and internationally. The consortium’s programs include property and casualty, auto, educators’ legal liability, workers’ compensation, student and athlete health insurance, employee benefits, and health plans. EIIA offers a library of educational videos, policy drafts, white papers, and legal briefs free to its members. The consortium is proud of its long-standing track record for educating institutions in managing risk and providing unique insurance programs and services tailored to their needs. 

Hanover Research, founded in 2003, is a global research, grant development, and analytics firm that delivers market intelligence through a unique, fixed-fee model to hundreds of higher education institutions worldwide. Hanover’s team of experts helps higher education institutions offer a world-class educational experience and operate an efficient and sustainable institution. Hanover has designed a tried and tested suite of higher education solutions that tackles the academic and administrative challenges facing every department at the institution, amplifying individual efforts in areas including enrollment management, academic affairs, finance, marketing, and advancement. Hanover’s partners include higher education institutions of all varieties: from large to small, public and private, two-year, four-year, professional, graduate, and for-profit institutions. With its comprehensive solutions and multi-methodological approaches, the firm’s dedicated team of analysts diagnoses an institution’s needs and develops a customized research agenda.

Hunter Global Education, LLC was established to bridge educational and relational gaps between American and Asian educational institutions and businesses. With today’s globalization, the need for honest, affordable, and reliable educational advice and assistance is growing. Institutions that once served local and regional needs are now being challenged to enter the global market, and trusted relationships are the highway on which international programs run. Students who once attended local and regional colleges and universities are venturing far from home to secure their education. Good decisions in all these areas require a sound knowledge of other cultures and countries. Hunter seeks to fill this knowledge and relationship void with its many programs and services. 

Ideas for Action, LLC (IFA) is an executive coaching and management consulting firm. The firm helps colleges and universities develop superior leadership, address difficult issues, find creative solutions, and plan and execute extraordinary results. Since 1995, IFA has served higher education and nonprofit organizations by strengthening executive leadership performance, guiding thoughtful and disciplined strategic planning and dialogue, enhancing board and governance capacity and agility, and providing insight, information, and actionable research. IFA’s partners are senior leaders in higher education and nonprofit management who act as trusted advisors and thought partners, building customized approaches and solutions to client needs. 

Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion, and jobs for all of higher education. Inside Higher Ed has what any administrator or faculty member, grad student, or vice president needs to thrive professionally: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, career advice, and practical tools to advance careers. Inside Higher Ed is a top resource for those in higher education, drawing 1.5 million readers each month, making it the ideal platform to reach a large and diverse audience of influential higher education professionals. 

Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University is a programmatic and grant-making organization committed to furthering freedom of expression in higher education and the flourishing of classic liberal studies in the college curriculum. Programs such as Learn Liberty introduce undergraduate students to classical liberal ideas and writers, while grants for graduate students assist interested students in pursuing advanced degrees. Grants to faculty members support on-campus programming related to liberal education and, increasingly, freedom of expression and open inquiry. 

Miller/Cook & Associates, Inc. has been providing comprehensive enrollment management services to colleges and universities since 1989. Whether an institution’s goal is determining the extent to which its financial aid policies support its enrollment objectives, revising existing practices to more effectively and efficiently meet enrollment goals, or building a multiple-year, net-revenue model, the professionals at Miller/Cook are available to design a plan that meets an institution’s needs. While their clients’ goals have differed, Miller/Cook has met or exceeded goals at more than 90 percent of partner institutions. Miller/Cook has recently added a new associate team member – Quantum. While print media remains important, Quantum takes direct mail and publication needs to a new level with its customized and measurable smart mail and printing processes. 

mStoner, Inc. is a digital-first agency committed to tailored solutions that deliver real results. The company crafts powerful, tailored, human-centric experiences to illuminate clients’ brands and allow them to tell their unique story. mStoner connects their clients with the right audience at the right time to form right-fit relationships. The firm positions teams for improved productivity, sustainable growth, internal alignment, and proof-positive success. mStoner aims to help clients create inspired work that they are proud to show off. Since 2001, mStoner has worked with more than 350 colleges, universities, and professional schools in the U.S. and abroad.

Partners Development has built a solid reputation as one of the premier companies specializing in comprehensive facilities development for private, independent colleges and universities. Partners is comprised of professionals providing facilities planning, financing, and development for higher education clients with a broad range of needs. 

Pioneer College Caterers is a food service management company serving faith-based campuses exclusively since 1973. Pioneer has 46 partners located in 20 states. Pioneer is a committed partner through recruiting, retention, student life, spiritual mission, catered events, and financial responsibility. The company welcomes the consideration and the privilege of making the acquaintance of Institute participants. 

Spelman Johnson is an executive search firm exclusively committed to serving higher education. Recruiting talented leaders on behalf of the institutions the firm serves, its success is strengthened by its deep and diverse relationships and its investment in the development and engagement of a leadership pipeline. Since 1991, the firm has helped hundreds of higher education institutions identify outstanding professionals, pairing exceptional leaders with positions across all facets of the academy. Spelman Johnson is nationally recognized for its thought leadership on issues of equity and diversity and for its commitment to inclusion in higher education. 

Stamats allies with colleges and universities on a mission. The firm helps institutional leaders dream, strategize, articulate, and implement, from strategic planning through market research and creative communications across all channels. 

Stevens Strategy, LLC is a full-service consulting firm specializing in managing the process of strategic change in colleges, universities, and schools. The firm offers professional services to the leaders of these institutions in the following areas: institutional vision and strategy, strategic organizational leadership, market and program analytics, finance and data analytics, and institution-wide policy manual development. Stevens Strategy’s consultants have extensive experience serving colleges, universities, and schools—including positions as present and former trustees, presidents, faculty members, vice presidents, and other senior staff—each with a particular area of expertise in leadership and management. The firm’s clients include independent and public institutions from the largest universities to the smallest colleges and schools in America and throughout the world. 

The Collaborative’s name represents both who the company is and the way it functions. As a group of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, planners, and graphic designers, the firm supports an interactive design process. The Collaborative shares the conviction that problem solving and design excellence are the products of many people, in different disciplines, working together with the client. Founded in 1973, The Collaborative’s experience includes more than 75 campuses and more than 550 major higher education projects. With this benchmarking knowledge, the firm can provide guidance for translating strategic goals into physical parameters. The Collaborative is a 47-person, multi-disciplined practice committed to high-quality design and client services. 

AGB Institutional Strategies is one of a number of consulting services offered by the Association of Governing Boards and provides institutions of higher education with operational and mission-driven strategies that help achieve renewed institutional strength. Visit the website for more information about their process, consultants, and case studies. 

BCWH provides full-service architecture, campus planning, interior design, and landscape architecture services in a practice committed to creating enriching and inspiring places with and for its clients. The firm has over 30 years of service to educational institutions with a focus on independent colleges and universities. Its vision is to collaborate closely with clients to enhance the campus environment as a holistic place for learning. The Van Yahres Studio of BCWH offers national expertise specializing in campus planning and has completed more than 700 campus projects. The company believes that the rational organization of buildings and outdoor spaces is an integral part of the learning environment. BCWH with the Van Yahres Studio offers a comprehensive experience in campus planning and design. 

Celli-Flynn Brennan Architects & Planners is a full-service architecture and planning firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in transforming college and university campuses. Since its founding in 1949, Celli-Flynn Brennan’s work at dozens of higher education institutions has led to national recognition in the field, and the firm’s support of CIC over the past 20 years has helped it gain an understanding of the issues facing presidential leaders on campus and beyond. The firm aims to design buildings that support institutional mission, complement the cultural landscape, and promote student recruitment and retention. The company’s portfolio includes every type of building that one would find on a college campus. 

Hyatt-Fennell, Executive Search brings over 60 years of combined highly successful executive search expertise to its higher education clients. Hyatt-Fennell is well-known and respected for placing top executives with independent colleges and universities and has earned a reputation for achieving results on the national and international level. Through a partnership with its clients, Hyatt-Fennell enhances and streamlines the search process and provides a commitment to find the perfect person for each position. 

​The Nelson Mullins School and College law team reaches across disciplines to help clients reach their goals and plan ahead. The firm provides holistic representation for clients’ legal needs. Their education law professionals serve as thought leaders, and partner with other thought leaders, to impact educational policy and advocate best practices. The firm has worked with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies and legislative bodies. They also represent clients before administrative tribunals and federal courts to achieve optimal results for their clients. Founded in 1897, Nelson Mullins today has more than 550 attorneys and other professionals located in 10 states and Washington, DC. 

R.H. Perry & Associates (RHPA) is an experienced and successful higher education executive search firm. The company’s primary focus is to assist institutions of higher education in the identification and selection of their leadership. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the firm’s consultants maintain offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia. RHPA has completed more than 1,000 searches in its 43-year history. The firm’s higher education practice consists of senior-level executives with a well-balanced mix of college and university presidential experience and executive search expertise. RHPA conducts its search practice with two consultant teams supported by communications and due diligence specialists. 

RHB is a marketing and design consultancy serving higher education. The firm has aided more than 125 colleges and universities in their efforts to solve branding, marketing, enrollment, and fund-raising challenges. RHB’s mission to help great causes succeed leads them to market research, strategic planning and creative implementation solutions for institutions. The firm utilizes its experience and expertise to offer informed counsel to college and university presidents regarding differentiated marketing positions, signature experiences, and revenue-generating strategies. RHB also collaborates with the Lawlor Group to generate The Survey of Independent College Presidents, available at www.higheredintelligence.com. Through RHB Insights, the firm writes about and shares its latest thoughts on higher ed marketing to provide clarity and confidence to a higher ed readership that spans the globe. 

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a national law firm of more than 300 lawyers with offices in Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. The firm’s higher education team consists of attorneys from multiple disciplines who cater to the diverse legal service needs of independent colleges throughout the United States, including advice on a broad array of compliance issues and tax-exempt financing. The firm’s attorneys have held positions in higher education as in-house counsel, accountants, development officers, trustees, and faculty members, and they have extensive experience handling issues confronting multiple colleges. In short, the firm understands higher education and constantly aspires to provide cost-effective, pragmatic solutions based on that understanding. 

Ziegler, a privately held firm, generates a positive impact on the communities it serves by specializing in the education, healthcare, senior living, and all not-for-profit sectors, as well as general municipal and structured finance. Since 1902, Ziegler has grown to become a full service, specialty investment bank and broker-dealer. Ziegler provides its clients with capital raising, strategic advisory services, equity and fixed-income sales and trading, and research. 

Kaludis Consulting has provided strategic advice, planning support, and management solutions to some 700 colleges and universities since 1977. With a service portfolio emphasizing strategic, academic, and business planning; institutional economics and finance; and effective use of technology, the firm provides analysis, perspective, and guidance that enable clients to gain strategic traction in their thinking, planning, and decision making. 

The Dysart Group is a higher education consulting firm specializing in admissions, financial aid, and retention. The firm has worked with more than 175 colleges and universities to achieve extraordinary outcomes.